On our trucks, we keep all our soldering material, such as solder, paste, pipe cutters, emery cloth, inspection mirror and other miscellaneous items, in small tackle boxes.
The phone rings off the hook some days with mechanicals, plumbers and wholesalers all looking for that magic metal alloy and flux to solve their copper joining needs. Taracorp and our manufacturers' representatives have been fielding these questions from all parts of the globe for more than a century.
One product in the plumber's toolbox that is used practically everyday and probably taken for granted is soldering flux. First introduced over 100 years ago, flux technology has seen rapid changes and improvements in the past several years. Let's examine the various types of flux currently on the market, and look at how to more effectively use this essential product.
